Word: garlic
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...celebrates Janet's "nude unity of so many shades of cream and pink and lilac." But too often he mixes four-letter words with what Norman Mailer once called the "stale garlic" of his lyricism (the offense being not in the four-letter words but in the garlic). Occasionally, the garlic stands alone, as in Updike's description of a man and woman achieving climax: "So he did then travel through a palace of cloth and sliding stairways throughout the casket of perfume that
...step-by-step account of how she built her dream house. The story has an irresistible fairy-tale aura, and her menus are as excellent as those in her previous book (My Favorite Things), although many a gourmet will be sorely wounded by her continuing and total aversion to garlic...
Hunting the wily vampire, a batty professor (Jack MacGowran) and his simpleton assistant (Polanski) come to Dracula country and put up at an inn suspiciously festooned in garlic-a well-known specific against bloodsuckers. Things augur well when the luscious Sharon Tate is savagely fondled and fangled in her bath by caped Count Krolock, who makes off with her into the snowy night, leaving a sinister splash of blood on the soapsuds. But by the time that professor and assistant totter to the rescue with their bag of crucifixes (to ward off the vampires), the plot creaks even more than...
...Garlic & Gold Coins. At the Shah's request, the Iranian Parliament has unanimously approved a bill that will eventually amend Iran's 50-year-old constitution and enable the Shah to appoint a regent-designate to rule if he should die before his son, Crown Prince Reza, now six, becomes 20 years old. His choice for the regency: his wife, Empress Farah, 28, who has presented him with two male heirs (plus a girl) after two previous wives failed to give him a son. The Shah, who has held Iran's Peacock Throne for 26 years without...
...Shah's people would dispute his right to the crown. More prosperous than ever, millions of Iranians went traveling for the holiday, flocking to Caspian Sea beaches and gathering in homes for the traditional meal, which includes apples, sumac (a bread baked on hot stones), garlic and wheat halva. At a palace reception, the Shah rewarded his ministers with handfuls of newly minted gold coins. In a family tableau showing the continuity of the Pahlevi line, the Shah, the Empress and the Crown Prince inaugurated a new TV station in Teheran. In his first speech to the country...